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Friday, November 20, 2009

What Goes Into ETF Trading

By Patrick Deaton

Understanding what goes into ETF trading (and ETF is what is known as an exchange traded fund) will be necessary before deciding to participate in an ETF. As an investment vehicle, these funds can deliver good returns on investment with a little bit of effort. ETFs are index funds set up to track one of the large market indexes such as the S&P 500, for example.

Additionally, an ETF can also be set up as a trust. Regardless, their general structure resembles a mutual fund, and they all contain a large basket of securities. ETFs have listings on the stock exchanges and can be traded throughout the day, which is sometimes known as intraday. Traders tend to look at the intraday trading as a way to make money from the activities in an ETF.

Currently, there are over 100 different ETFs on the American Stock Exchange. Most ETFs have a wide range market sectors and indexes that they represent. They are involved in many industries, most stock market indexes, many sectors in individual markets and also represent many international regions. They also may represent a wide range of corporate bond or Treasury indexes.

Investors who wish to participate in ETF trading sell or buy shares in the collective performance of one or several of an entire portfolio of bonds or stocks as a single security. As an arrangement, there are many benefits to doing so. This includes combining liquidity of stock investing with all the benefits of investing using traditional fund indexing.

There are a great many advantages to the investor, whether large institutional kinds or the small investor who will be getting into an ETF through a trading system. Generally speaking, an exchange traded fund has much lower annual expenses -- referred to as costs -- than many other investment vehicles. Because they are not index-based, their management fees are usually very reasonable.

This is particularly attractive, and is made possible because an ETF is not considered to be actively managed on a very close basis. In other words, there are not a lot of movements in the fund that require management to get involved on trades and such. This is supported by the fact that studies reveal that there is no advantage with actively managed funds over these kinds.

ETFs can operate in this way (meaning non-active management) because they tie their net asset value on each trading day to the assets that underlie the fund. This can make an ETF extremely transparent because it tends to replicate the holdings that are contained in the index that the ETF is tied to and which it tracks on a daily and intraday basis.

Many small investors of the non-institutional variety go one of two ways when trading in an ETF; they usually trade all day or they make their moves to single trades carried out at at the end of the day. There is really no restriction placed upon trading activities by the ETF when it comes to this, though. ETF trading, then, usually turns out to be very easy. - 23212

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